meretriciousness

Other forms of meretriciousness

plural

meretriciousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meretriciousness

What does meretriciousness mean?

meretriciousness means "an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meretriciousness?

meretriciousness has 6 syllables: me-re-tri-ci-ou-sness. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for meretriciousness?

Close synonyms include speciousness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meretriciousness a common word?

meretriciousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.